He didn’t say that.
This article is based on an essay Altman wrote 9 years ago where he claims that humanity’s only hope of survival is to merge with AI and transcend into a new, transhuman species.
Look, I fucking hate Sam Altman. He represents everything that’s wrong with the Tech industry, and is also a pretty good example of everything that’s wrong with capitalism writ large. Sam sucks. He lies, he cheats, he steals. But lying about Altman does not help the anti-AI cause. It just muddies the message and gives bad actors more shit to stir. And besides… it’s not like we have to make shit up about the guy to make him look bad. There’s SO much crazy shit he actually did say that you can point to instead.
I’m reporting this post to the mods as misinformation, and I hope others do too. AI sucks. Sam sucks. But we have to tell the truth, or we’re no better than they are.
Does this guy never just shut the fuck up?
Every day I see “Sam Altmann says”.
Go and have a steamy sex shower with Elon and just fuck off.
What. The. Fuck.
Oh yeah and by the way, AI is a Eugenics Project.
Ai psychosis. Never get high on your own supply.
No, he’s just a salesman who has something to sell and he is working hard to sell it. “Humanity will die out unless you buy my product!”
He also has competition so he needs to stay relevant, which is why he makes these grand statements that get media attention.
This is just insane speculative babbling, you could just as well make the exact same argument for genetically designed mutations.
It’s just bullshit that we MUST fuse with digital machinery to survive, and in no way is relevant at this point.
Because we simply don’t have the technologies to make it an attractive proposal, and we are very far from it.
Arguing we should fuse our minds with strong AI, is essentially arguing that we should allow our minds to be partially controlled and constantly influenced by this fused AI.
That looks like the first step of becoming like Borgs from Star trek, that end up losing their individuality.IMO Sam Altman can just go fuck himself, he doesn’t know shit about what he is talking about. He just has “visions” probably induced by toxic vapors or something with similar effect.
Yeah, let’s just kill him instead
Bourgeoisie extinction is the best case solution.
It’s the dream utopian solution.
To finally exsanguinate the hydra of greed and evil, just before humanity’s dying breath, like a true underdog legend;
Please use one of the countless templates that doesn’t involve a fucking creep.
Absolutely fair call and noted.
Use the one with the sunglasses girl far superior version. Yes I am just saying that cause she’s wearing aviators.
Sometimes I’m surprised how many meme templates are based on celebrities I find distasteful.
Many billionaires want the world to become unstable, to have civilisation collapse while they are chilling in their massive bunker. Then to rebuild the world the way they like after that. It’s why they are all building these huge bunker complexes on Hawaii and New Zealand, among other places.
Evangelicals same thing. They believe in a prophecy claiming the end of the world will come after a conflict in the middle east between the Jewish and Islamic groups, causing global nuclear destruction. The apocalypse. When that happens, Jesus will return and they will all go to heaven. So they actively want this to happen, so they can go to heaven. And super influencial people already have been very close to the US nuclear launch key. They collect money for Israel to support their war, even though they don’t like jews, but it is an attempt to make their prophecy come true.
These people are complete nut jobs and extremily dangerous. They have people in very high places. Also, how would they go to heaven if they support violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Jesus said “do no harm” right? They are so fucking dumb yet a very serious threat to many, if not all.
Extinction is the default, you dolt. We were trying to see if we could get a different outcome rather than the default.
These people are not clever.
They are brilliant morons.
Apparently nobody’s figured it out for the past 13 billion years or so.
This isn’t really extinction in that sense. The author is being pedantic.
Extinction in the form of living forever and morphing into a different species is just not something we have a word for because it’s never happened before.
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morphing into a different species is just not something we have a word for because it’s never happened before.
Oh man wait until you hear about some of the ideas from this Charles Darwin guy!
I meant a single individual living forever and morphing into a different species, which is what Sam Altman is talking about, not a whole species evolving into another across generations of individuals…
The first one has never happened and is the topic being discussed, the latter is irrelevant.
That’s just arguing semantics on what evolution means.
First definition for Evolution in Merriam-Webster: “Descent with modification from preexisting species.” Sure sounds a fuckload like what turning humans into AI is to me.
Further, I don’t understand why everyone fucking believes the idea that being in a computer means you can live forever. Last I checked, some of these LLMs for major companies require buildings the size of a whole section of a city, with the power requirements to boot. We are nowhere near where we need to be with materials science to be having factories with no humans in them auto fabricating and auto replacing parts as they go bad. RAM still fails, CPUs still fail, power supplies still fail. The “living forever” thing rests pretty heavily on some major assumptions of everything going exaclty perfectly and that they’re not just building the equivalent of the Pyramids, digital tombs for their now digital brains that will keep running as the outside world slowly decays until their systems stop working and nature takes over once again.
That’s just arguing semantics on what evolution means.
Lol, no it’s not, Darwin has thoughts on precisely what evolution is:
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.[1][2] It occurs when evolutionary processes such as genetic drift and natural selection act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations.[3] The process of evolution has given rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organisation.[4][5]
The scientific theory of evolution by natural selection was conceived independently by two British naturalists, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, in the mid-19th century as an explanation for why organisms are adapted to their physical and biological environments. The theory was first set out in detail in Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species.[6]
You go first, bro
The billionaires are out for blood. Tought you guys should know.
Always have been. They just want to play god among men a few more times before they run into their bunkers and end times yachts, and their idea of god is the Old Testament one, where it’s disdainful, demands fealty, is cruel, uncaring, vengeful, requires constant sacrifices to the already stripped down servants, and constant adulation in the form of chants, statues, regailings that hail them as superior and well loved.
It’s hilariously sad because it all hinges on them somehow keeping complete control over everyone after all the systems that brought them to the level of wealth they have will be broken and gone. They fail to understand that they succeeded in a system where they didn’t have to fear someone cutting their head off to take their place as the new leader of the bunker or will just cut off their head and just fucking leave the bunker behind with their corpse left rotting all alone. When all rules and order are out of the window, they are 100% reliant on their precious technology to continue being in control. All it takes is a failure of ONE of those systems for it to all come crashing down and for their head of security to become a new local warlord. They literally are textbook definitions of “hubris.”
Only Zuckerberg actually seems to be considering that aspect in terms of his physical training and fighting training. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s also had extensive firearms training, honestly. Out of all of them I can see him having the self-discipline to actually learn the skills he would need to survive after retreating to a bunker. He may still come off like a robot, but he’s clearly a little bit more put together than the rest of them, who are either roided out freaks like Bezos or idiots like Musk who couldn’t even get roided up correctly because he’s so fucking lazy.
The problem with zuck is you have to have a community to survive any situation where the systems break down, and he’s not likable enough or social enough to stay in or properly form a community. He made his money with an antisocial hot girl rating site that turned into apps that fed off making people insecure and scared constantly so they’d forever doom scroll. He is incapable of defending himself from multiple tribes simultaneously, including his own.
Oh absolutely, but the fact that he can listen to experts means he may just be willing enough to listen to experts and do some socially ingratiating things even if he as a person doesn’t actually care about them. Zuck is an evil asshole, but I don’t actually think he’s stupid.
Same. But if you pay attention to the reality tv survival shows, the first people on the chopping blocks are the ones that pose obvious threats. That’s zuck by a mile. It’s also how modern right wing govts are being run. I have no doubt it’s how the first gangs in an apocalypse will be run.
I agree accept about zuckerberg, that soft Bitch isn’t going to make it.
https://observer.com/2023/05/mark-zuckerberg-jiu-jitsu/
He’s actually in shape in a healthy way, he’s not roided up at all. He’s out there practicing and succeeding. I can’t stand the fucking guy, but the idea that he’s totally soft when he’s the only billionaire I’ve seen who actually does stuff like listen to his coaches is silly. Footage of him training shows that he has amazing coaches (he obviously can afford the best) and he definitely listens to them.
He is working out in the gym, with supplements and whatever, he didn’t build his muscle by working. He’s a bitch, not as much of a bitch as the other billionaires I will give you that obviously. Nevertheless. Also though is it just me or are his either over developed or is he developing bitch tits? And I’m just quoting Fight Club don’t get on my shit about that phrase. The other two dudes have not natural builds but more even builds.
The black guy actually looks like he has 100% natural build, the white guy maybe barely steroid those are all natural builds actually for the most part.
We will have a chance of survival after we eat the rich
And here I thought Ted Faro from Horizon Zero Dawn was bad writing.
Wow, and I thought I was the only one who actually thought Aloy was really pretty but also didn’t understand the accolades for the writing which seemed very one note and had flat character development.
Capitalism is a death cult
“The only way we can save humanity is to buy my product!”
He’s not warning us, he’s threatening us.
TESCREALism is a billionaire ideology which aims to create superintelligent AI as a “worthy sucessor to humanity”
I miss when business sophistry was about how my house would be cleaner.
You are supposed to tie the rag around the neck of the bottle FYI.
For safety yes. What about over all AOE though?
AOE comes from the bottle breaking. The danger with an unsecured molotov is the fuel may leak out of the top, in which case that AOE is going to be a broad spray starting above your people.
I dont think it matters. I wouldn’t try to find it out tho
